By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The Palestinian soccer team will get its first test at the Asian Cup with its preparations having been made harder by no domestic soccer and limited opportunities to play competitive matches. It faces three-time champion Iran on Sunday in its opening game of the tournament,
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – – Many parts of Oregon are experiencing severe winter storm conditions, including snow, ice, freezing rain, high winds, heavy rain and freezing temperatures, and emergency efforts are underway to help those affected. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management has activated the State Emergency Coordination Center for state agencies and nonprofit partners to
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Las aerolíneas todavía se están recuperando de un intenso día de tormentas que azotó la mitad este de los Estados Unidos el viernes y vio a todos los estados bajo algún tipo de alerta relacionada con el clima. Hasta las primeras horas de la tarde del sábado, más de 1.200
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – In the first round of FY2024 Career Opportunity Program grant awards, the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation have awarded $105,103 to 24 artists for career development projects. The awards include $44,202 from the Oregon Arts Commission for all artistic disciplines and $60,901 in supplemental funding for 16 established visual artists
Continue ReadingBY COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Silvia Venturini Fendi plucked heirlooms from an aristocratic family hope chest and embellished them with details long released from the feminine realm for a highlands-stomping menswear collection previewed Saturday during Milan Fashion Week. Venturini Fendi said she was inspired by Princess Anne, whom she called “the
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders are preparing a stopgap bill to keep the federal government running into March and avoid a partial shutdown next week. The temporary measure will run to March 1 for some federal agencies whose approved funds are set to run out Friday
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Airlines are still digging themselves out from an intense day of storms that battered the eastern half of the United States on Friday and saw every state under some type of weather-related alert. As of early Saturday evening, more than 1,200 flights across the country were canceled,
Continue ReadingBy Gerardo Lemos, Sahar Akbarzai, Jose Alvarez, Heather Chen and Juan Carlos Paz, CNN (CNN) — Landslides in Colombia’s northwestern area of Chocó have killed at least 37 people, authorities from the Prosecutor’s Office told CNN en Español on Saturday. The latest report did not say how many had been injured. “We are experiencing a
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Izso, Heather Law and Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN (CNN) — The border between Egypt and Gaza “must” be closed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday – a move that would give Israel complete control over the Palestinian enclave’s access to the world. During a press briefing, Netanyahu said that Israel would not consider the
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon Community College is hosting its annual Oregon Transfer Days event — an outreach partnership comprised of Oregon’s public and private colleges and universities, and other higher education institutions — from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, in the Bend campus’s Coats Campus Center, to help students
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional confirmó el sábado que una mujer y sus dos hijos se ahogaron en el río Grande el viernes por la noche mientras intentaban cruzar a Estados Unidos. Los migrantes murieron en el área de Shelby Park en Eagle Pass, donde el Gobierno de Texas bloqueó
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say they have found at least eight Colombian women who were reported missing in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The state’s governor said the women were in good health and had been taken to the state prosecutors’ offices. The women were apparently working as escorts and were sent
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, THOMAS BEAUMONT and BILL BARROW Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley pushed across ice-cold Iowa Saturday to find voters open to an alternative to former President Donald Trump with just two days before the state’s caucuses open the Republican primary calendar. Trump, the
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Congressional leaders have come to an agreement on a two-tranche short-term funding bill to keep the government funded into March, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The new continuing resolution will fund the government through March 1 and March 8. The agreement comes just
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Heavy snow and dangerous cold hit the High Desert as forecast Saturday, making for very risky travel conditions and keeping most folks at or close to home, followed by Sunday’s major dig-out from a foot or more of snow as temperatures warmed Sunday to more normal readings.
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate, is stepping down from the Biden administration in the coming weeks, according to two people familiar with his plans. Kerry, a longtime senator and secretary of state, was tapped shortly after Joe Biden’s November 2020 election to take
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Ron Davis Álvarez se quedó en un andén de tren en Estocolmo, atónito por lo que vio. El director de orquesta venezolano se encontraba de visita en Suecia como parte de un programa de intercambio universitario. Esperaba que su paso por una estación de tren de camino a visitar a un grupo
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The governor of Italy’s Tuscany region says 30 people were injured when a restaurant ceiling collapsed during a wedding reception. Gov. Eugenio Giani said in a post on the Telegram messaging channel Saturday evening that five of the injured were in critical condition. The ceiling collapsed in a restaurant that was formerly
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — US climate envoy John Kerry plans to step down from his post by this spring, a source close to Kerry confirmed to CNN. Kerry is leaving the position after three years at the helm of US climate diplomacy under the Biden administration. The source close to Kerry said he
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Un juez federal de México absolvió el viernes del delito de intervención ilegal de comunicaciones privadas a Juan Carlos García Rivera, quien hasta ahora era la única persona detenida por el espionaje telefónico a periodistas y activistas presuntamente realizado con el software Pegasus, informaron el Consejo de la Judicatura
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